Indirect Heating and Vacuum Melter (Cream Cheese)

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This equipment overcomes the limitations of traditional hemispherical kettles, through an optimized geometry that offers greater thermal contact surface area. For cream cheese processing, the system uses double ribbon or screw agitation to handle the product's high density, while spring-loaded scrapers continuously remove the product film from the walls. This enables indirect steam cooking in the jacket without product degradation from localized overheating. The system can integrate vacuum or cryogenic cooling within the same "batch", consolidating multiple production stages.

Maximize your melting line profitability by reducing thermal cycle times and guaranteeing homogeneous texture without burned particles, through engineering design that optimizes the heat transfer coefficient in indirect heating applications.

INDIRECT MELTER — WRAPAROUND JACKET AND BIDIRECTIONAL SCRAPING

•Superior Thermal Transfer Efficiency: The wraparound jacket design provides up to 50% more heat transfer area than conventional designs, translating into faster heating times and lower energy consumption per kilogram produced.

•Bidirectional Scraping System: Essential for indirect dairy heating, scrapers keep the heat exchange surface clean, preventing "burn-on" fouling that acts as a thermal insulator and affects the organoleptic quality of the cheese.

•Agitation Versatility for High Viscosity: The double agitator configuration (ribbon or screw) ensures homogeneous mixing and keeps solids in suspension, ideal for dense products or blends such as processed cheese bases or particulate mixtures.

•Flexible Thermal Management (Heat/Cool): The equipment allows cooking and cooling in the same vessel. Supports 30-130 PSI steam jackets for heating and vacuum cooling or liquid jacket circulation options, reducing contamination risk from transfer between vessels.

•Advanced Automation and Control (NEMA 4X): Managed by PLC/HMI, the system allows programming recipes, controlling independent steam zones for partial batches, and recording critical process data, ensuring repeatability and regulatory compliance.